Australia vows not to end treaty with Solomons

Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs Marise Payne yesterday said that a controversial security deal between the Solomon Islands and China would not spell the end of her country’s defense cooperation with the Pacific nation.
An existing bilateral security treaty between Australia and the Solomon Islands would continue even if the nation ignored entreaties from Canberra and signed a security pact with China, Payne told Australian Broadcasting Corp.
She said it was under this treaty “that the assistance force made up of Pacific family countries — Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Papua New Guinea — went to the Solomon Islands at the end

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